ESRL Global Systems Division

Student Activities in Meteorology

Acknowledgements

August 31, 1992
Boulder, Colorado

We wish to thank the many individuals who helped us prepare the Student Activities in
Meteorology. A unique combination of knowledge, time, and effort on the part of many
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Boulder Laboratories' employees enabled
us to create the SAM series. We hope that both students and teachers learn as
much as we did, and have as much fun doing the activities as we had creating them.

We owe a special note of gratitude to the project coordinators, Barbara McGehan and Rhonda
Lange, for their inspiration and guidance.

We also thank and acknowledge the contributions of the following people.

Audrene Brown

Betty Close

Tom Conway

Steve Dent

Ed Dlugokencky

Wyn Eberhard

Wayne Fischer

Dick Fritz

Chris Grund

Seth Gutman

Rich Jesuroga

Rhonda Lange

Raul Lopez

Sandy MacDonald

Brooks Martner

Phil McDonald

John Osborn

Frank Pratte

Josephine Race

Bob Rilling

Doron Shalvi

Mel Shapiro

Greg Shaw

Lynn Sherretz

Dorothy Skinner

Ellen Steiner

Tony Tafoya

Chris Thomas

Taniel Uttal

Doug van de Kamp

Will von Dauster

Randy Wasser

Audrey Williams

Finally, we would like to acknowledge three students, Melissa Borego, Mariah Carbone, and
Jennifer Pierpont, whose comments helped us improve the readability of the technical
information presented in the activities.

Beverly L. Meier
Elisa Passarell

August 31, 1993
Boulder, Colorado

I owe a debt to many scientist colleagues and teachers who helped me to revise, update, and add
to the Students Activities in Meteorology. To those who took time to critique the SAM manual, I thank you for your detailed assessment. Many of your
suggestions appear in the current version (Version 2) of SAM.

Once again, scientists from NOAA's Boulder Laboratories have provided not simply
information, but an aesthetic enjoyment that accompanies the thrill of discovery and a sense of
excitement that emerges from the search for explanations. I sincerely hope that our enthusiasm
reaches students who use the SAM series.

In addition to those who contributed to the original SAM activities last summer,
and who contributed again this summer, I thank the following people for their knowledge and
assistance.

John Ball

Robert Battjes

Roger Brown

Helen Coffey

Larry Combs

Bill Glover

Kathryn Jones

Joann Joselyn

Matt Kelsch

Virginia Lincoln

Patrick MacIntosh

Bob Munger

Tom Schlatter

Janet Stellema

Christopher Wilson

I would also like to thank two former students and summer employees at the Boulder
Laboratories, Scott Geertgens and Tonya Reed.

Finally, to John Osborn, I owe a special note of thanks for his design and layout suggestions, as
well as for his patience and support in helping me to meet many deadlines in a short period of
time.

Beverly L. Meier

August 29, 1996
Boulder, Colorado

This is reprinting of Version 2 - Student Activities in Meteorology. There have
been some minor changes to several of the lessons, none of which have changes the impact of the
lessons in any way.

We would like to thank Doug van de Kamp of the Forecast Systems Laboratory's Demonstration
Division for changes to the Wind Profiler lesson. In addition, thanks to Carol Knight - Boulder
Laboratories Outreach Program - for coordination and overseeing the reprinting.

Finally, special thanks go back out to Beverly Meier, a science teacher in the Boulder Valley
School District, and one of the originators of SAM, for her work on the changes
for this reprinting.